Happy Easter everyone! We had a fabulous easter weekend, enjoying the company of Susanna and Daniel and showing them around some of Irelands sights. It was great to see old friends again and fun to get out of Dublin and enjoy the sunny weather. Susanna and Daniel arrived early on Good Friday after a long [...]
Category Archives: Sights and experiences
A weekend in Tuscany
Posted by kat on March 31, 2009
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It’s been a tough Monday getting back into the swing of things after our weekend away. Truthfully I’d much prefer to have spent my Monday relaxing in a piazza in Florence, sipping wine and eating antipasto. We flew into Pisa airport late on Friday and on Saturday we spent the day in Pisa. In the [...]
Scotland – Days 2 to 6
Posted by matt on January 11, 2009
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Already over a week since we were Scotland and I’m only just getting around to writing about our second day there! The new year is certainly off to a roaring start. On Day 2 (Dec 28) we started out from Inverness on a very cold, frosty and foggy morning and attempted to see some more [...]
Scotland – Day One
Posted by kat on December 27, 2008
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Our Scotland jaunt started last night when arrived at Prestwick Airport after only a short delay from our Ryan Air flight. We picked up our hire car and made it into Glasgow for the night without incident. Our hotel room for the night (Ibis) was serviceable (and a carbon-copy of the room layout of the [...]
Photos from New York and our NZ Party
Posted by matt on November 17, 2008
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I got back from San Francisco (or Mountain View just below San Francisco to be precise) last Thursday afternoon, just in time to take Kat out to dinner for our fourth wedding anniversary. It was a nice welcome home after almost four weeks away. During dinner we were discussing that in June next year it [...]
2 Weeks in the Big Apple
Posted by matt on November 3, 2008
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I’ve been in New York for work for the last two weeks as you should already know from Kat’s last post and happily she was able to join me for the second week. We had a great time visiting many of the typical tourist attractions together. See her previous post for the details of the [...]
Hello New York!
Posted by kat on October 28, 2008
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I’ve had 2 great days in New York so far. My flight arrived late and amid torrential rain and turbulence on Saturday night. By the time I got through immigration I was very tired and very very glad to see Matt waiting for me! Interestingly, I had trouble at immigration because they couldn’t get their [...]
A bit older
Posted by matt on October 16, 2008
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I had a great Birthday yesterday. It started with a phone call from New Zealand in the morning from Mum, Dad, Chris, Rachel, Andrew and Sarah, perfectly timed so that it didn’t get me out of bed and arrived just as I was about to leave the house for work. In the evening we had [...]
In Bruges
Posted by kat on October 14, 2008
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Last weekend we took a trip to Belgium, staying in Brussels and visiting nearby Bruges. As with any weekend trip it flew by too quickly and left us very tired by Monday morning. But we did have a great time away and really enjoyed visiting Bruges, sampling the local fare and snapping photos around the [...]
A week in Malta
Posted by kat on September 20, 2008
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After a week in sunny Malta we are both sporting a healthy glow – a slight improvement on the pale and pasty complexion we have been developing throughout the “Irish summer”. It was refreshing to take a week off and I feel quite rejuvenated after soaking in the sun for a week. It was also [...]